Olga Belogolova

In the Wall Street Journal!

Here’s a photo of the quarter sheet ad announcing the finalists in The Wall Street Journal today. It’s on A15, if you buy a copy Remember to VOTE! (I’m on the far left)

Photo by Ryan Wallace, sent via iPhone.

Vote Now! MySpace Journal Finalist Video

Hey everyone! Just thought you might want to take a look at my submission video before voting. I know, I talk fast…but I have a lot of great things to say and I would really love a chance to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos this year!!!

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MySpace DirektDavos Video Submission - Olga B.

Why do I care?

• It’s an amazing opportunity for me as well as for citizen journalists. As I discuss in my video, social media is changing the way we do everything these days, including global discussion. Even the World Economic Forum itself is dipping its toes into this with WELCOM, a collaborative platform that integrates Web 2.0 technology and will enable leaders to build knowledge, share insights and reach out to key stakeholders as an online community throughout the year. I think it’s pretty cool that the world is changing the way it resolves conflicts and adapts simultaneously to our current technology and social media addicted society.
• It’s even more amazing that they are allowing citizen journalists to take part in this conversation. In the past year, we realized just how much the economy can affect each and every one of us as individuals. Especially for recent grads, we stepped into an economy and job market we knew nothing about and we had it pretty bad, but we’re still here today and we’ve learned from our mistakes and our experiences and we are ready to contribute to the global conversation. Give me a chance to join that!

Thank you so much for all of your support!!! You guys are amazing!

Vote: http://www.myspace.com/myspacejournal

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Coverage for the MySpace Journal…

Hi guys! (and gals!)

For an update and yet another annoying reminder to retweet, pass on the news to all your friends and to vote (www.myspace.com/myspacejournal), I have included some the coverage for the contest that I have found online. Pretty cool stuff! …more to come

Blogs:

http://www.forumblog.org/blog/2010/01/myspacejournal-competition-meet-the-finalists.html

Twitter:

@MySpace Check out our finalists for the #WEF Citizen Journalist Contest!

RT @olgs7: Excited to be a finalist for the #myspacejournal contest to report on #wef @Davos. Appreciate all your support & votes!

Thanks for voting! Really appreciate it!

I’m a finalist! VOTE for me!

So here’s the BIG NEWS: I am a finalist for the MySpace/Wall Street Journal contest!

What is it? ” the assignment of a lifetime” I would get a chance to report from The World Economic Forum‘s Annual Meeting.

Where is it? Davos, Switzerland

What do you need to do? VOTE. Visit http://www.myspace.com/myspacejournal starting today and vote for my video submission.

What did they have to say? “MySpace Citizen Journalist” program in partnership with The Wall Street Journal and the World Economic Forum, giving one MySpace user the opportunity to become a special correspondent at the world’s most prestigious conference, the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2010 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland. The “MySpace Citizen Journalist” winner, chosen by a panel of experts, will join the Davos press corps and leverage the MySpace platform to report on conference news and interview world leaders about issues relevant to the global MySpace community.”

THANK YOU SO MUCH EVERYONE! I really appreciate it.

In order to show my full appreciation, I am including a photoshopped photo of myself in a swiss miss costume and a block of Swiss cheese! Thanks again for your support!

“MySpace Citizen Journalist” winner will receive:

• All expenses paid travel to/from Davos, Switzerland
• Invitations to the Young Global Leaders opening conference and various media events
• Attendance at private meetings with editors from The Wall Street Journal and News Corp executives
• The opportunity to document the experience in written and video blogs on MySpace and The Wall Street Journal online
• Syndication of their MySpace blog via WSJ.com

New articles up!

Some January issue articles are up on the Encore Magazine site. Take a look!

Orpheus Descending (January 2010)

From Britain with Love (January 2010)

Pathétique (January 2010)

A Tchaikovsky Portrait: Child of Glass (January 2010)

Grupo de Rua’s H3 (January 2010)

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone! Back to work tomorrow. Time to make some new resolutions and consequently break them. CHEERS!

TOP 30(ish) SONGS OF THE DECADE

(this list is probably missing a lot of great songs…but it’s just off the top of my head)

• “Read My Mind”(2007) by The Killers
• “Grey Street” (2002) by Dave Matthews
• “The Blower’s Daughter” (2003) by Damien Rice
• “Walk On”; “In a Little While” (2000); “Original of The Species” (2004) by U2
• “Island in the Sun” (2001) by Weezer
• “The Middle” (2001) by Jimmy Eat World
• “Time to Pretend” (2007) by MGMT
• “Paper Planes” (2007) by M.I.A.
• “Valerie”  (2007) by Mark Ronson ft. Amy Winehouse
• “Last Nite” (2001) by The Strokes
• “The Seed” (2003) by The Roots
• “The Scientist” (2003) by Coldplay
• “Use Somebody” (2008) by Kings of Leon
• “I’m Yours” (2008); “The Remedy” (2002) by Jason Mraz
• “40 Days 40 Fights”; “The Further I Slide” (2002) by Badly Drawn Boy
• “Home” (2005); “Everything” (2007) by Michael Bublé
• “Stronger” (2007) by Kanye West
• “Broken Strings” (feat. Nelly Furtado); “Love is Hard” (2008) by James Morrison
• “Everything’ll Be Alright (Will’s Lullaby)” (2006); “Today” (2006) by Joshua Radin
• “Mima’amakim” (2005) by Idan Raichel Project
• “Son’s Gonna Rise” (2004) by Citizen Cope
• “Ces Soirées Là” (2000) by Yannick
• ”Ose “ (2003) by Yannick Noah
• “Qu’est-ce que tu fais?” (2002) by Corneille
• “Tu No” (2002) by Gemelli Diversi
• “Your Body Is a Wonderland” (2000) by John Mayer
• “Apologize”(2006) by One Republic
• “1963” (2007) by Rachael Yamagata
• “Stranded” (2005) by Van Morrison
• “Lesson Learned (2006) by Ray Lamontagne

TOP MOVIES OF THIS PAST DECADE

BEST CHICK FLICKS

Bridget Jones Diary (2001)

Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)

Mean Girls (2004)

The Notebook (2004)

Pride and Prejudice (2005)

BEST FOREIGN FILMS

Amelie (2001)

“L’augerge espagnol”  (2002)

Love Me if you Dare/Jeux d’enfants (2003)

Happily Ever After/ Ils se marièrent et eurent beaucoup d’enfants (2004)

The Lives of Others (2006)

La Vie En Rose (2007)

FRENCH FILMS NOT IN FRENCH SO I CAN’T  CALL THEM FOREIGN

Chocolat (2000)

Modigliani (2004)

BEST CULT FILM SERIES

The Harry Potter Series (2001-Present)

SEXIEST FILMS

Closer (2004)

Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005)

BEST COMEDY

High Fidelity (2000)

Greenfingers (2000)

BEST WINNERS

The Pianist (2002)

Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

TOP TV SHOWS OF THIS DECADE

BEST DRAMAS

1. Mad Men (2007-Present)

2. Dexter (2006-Present)

BEST OF GIRLY SHOWS

1. Sex and the City (1998-2004)

2. Gilmore Girls (2000-2007)

BEST OF THOSE “AWESOME GROUP OF FRIENDS” SHOWS

1. Friends (1994-2004)

2. Dawson’s Creek (1998-2003)

3. Coupling (2000-2004)

4. How I Met Your Mother (2005-Present)

BEST COMEDY

1. Arrested Development (2003-2006)

BEST BUTT-KICKING FEMALE SHOW

1. Alias (2001-2006)

BEST VAMPIRE SHOWS

1. Moonlight (2007-2008)

2. True Blood (2008-Present)

BEST CANCELLED TOO SOON SHOWS

1. Veronica Mars (2004-2007)

2. Pushing Daisies (2007-2009)

TOP ONLINE TOOLS OF THE DECADE

1. Duh. As soon as my older sister got a Facebook account, I was more eager to get my college email than ever before. Screw getting my list of classes or my dorm assignment. I wanted Facebook and back then, the magic key was having a college e-mail.  Facebook is the best (or worst) thing that ever happened to college students, stalking, dating, and everything else under the sun these days.
2. Maybe it’s because we all like wasting our time or we have all become visual people,  but YouTube has not only changed the way we spend our hours and define “celebrity,” but also how we socialize and even how we run our democracy. In 2008, both candidates had their own YouTube channels.
3. From Gmail, Picasa and Youtube (see above) to Google Maps and even Google Android, Google has become one of the biggest movers and shakers of the online world. For me, it has changed the way I check my email, share documents, share pictures, manage my time, search for information, do marketing, check traffic and soon enough, it will even change the way I use my phone (when I get over myself and buy one already).
4. Am I the only one who remembers using computer software Encyclopedia Britannica for my 5^th grade projects? Searching for information and the way we can all contribute to Diderot’s idea of the “Encyclopédie” is one of the most amazing things that happened to us (and especially lazy students) in the past 10 years. Someone even quoted it in an essay at Oxford.
5. Most people I meet still don’t really “get” Twitter or want to give it a chance. Maybe I wasn’t as excited about it as I was about getting my Facebook account set up, but as I navigated the world of Twitter, I learned that it is a great tool. 140 characters has now become the definition of concise and trending topics has changed the way we think about news and world events. It’s also comforting to know that if I get stuck in a foreign jail as a journalist, I can let my friends know via one word tweet. That could have helped Bridget Jones…
6. For me, as a journalist, this has changed so much. Citizen journalism has changed my career aspirations, my industry, and even our world’s definition of truth and objectivity. With over 100 millions bloggers out there right now, it’s a tough market. The good stuff? Blogging has also changed the way I can expose my writing, share my ideas and the reason I am writing this right here, right now, using CMS.